The Last Ever After
Can Agatha and Sophie find the perfect ending to their story in this epic third instalment to this bestselling series.Once best friends, Agatha and Sophie were pulled apart like strangers, each in the arms of a boy, Good with Good, Evil with Evil… is their friendship lost forever after…But as they settle into their new lives, their story begs to be re-written, and this time, theirs isn’t the only one. With the girls apart, Evil has taken over and the villains of the past have come back to change their tales and turn the world of Good and Evil upside down.With Evers being murdered and Nevers reigning supreme, the girls need to restore the balance, find the end to their story, and—hopefully—become friends again
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First published in hardback in the USA by HarperCollins Childrenâs Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. in 2015
First published in paperback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Childrenâs Books in 2015
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The School for Good and Evil: The Last Ever After
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Source ISBN: 9780007502868
Ebook Edition © JULY 2015 ISBN: 9780007502851
Version: 2016-12-08
Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.
T. H. White, The Once and Future King
Contents
Chapter 1: The Master and the Queen
Chapter 4: Death at an Execution
Chapter 6: A Forest No Longer Blue
Chapter 7: Evil Is the New Good
Chapter 8: When Good Rescues Go Bad
Chapter 9: The Worst Evers Ever
Chapter 10: The Missing Thirteenth
Chapter 11: Appointment with the Deans
Chapter 14: Where Wizards Go to Think
Chapter 15: The Magicianâs Plan
Chapter 17: Missions Impossible
Chapter 18: Tedros in the Sky with Chocolate
Chapter 19: Old School Reunions
Chapter 20: Last Stop on the Fairy Dust Express
Chapter 22: Everything Old Is New Again
Chapter 24: Who Do You Belong With?
Chapter 25: The Scorpion and the Frog
Chapter 26: In Darkness Comes a Queen
Chapter 28: Whoâs Helping Who
Chapter 29: Failed Assignments
Chapter 30: Apologies and Confessions
Chapter 31: Spies in the Stymph Forest
Chapter 32: The Meaning of Evil
Chapter 33: An Unexpected History Lesson
Chapter 34: The War of All Things
IN THE FOREST PRIMEVAL
A SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL
TWO TOWERS LIKE TWIN HEADS
ONE FOR THE PURE
ONE FOR THE WICKED
TRY TO ESCAPE YOUâLL ALWAYS FAIL
THE ONLY WAY OUT IS
THROUGH A FAIRY TALE
He certainly looks young, Sophie thought, peering at the lean, shirtless boy as he gazed out the tower window, bathed in faded sunlight. Sophie studied his hairless white skin and snug black breeches, his thick spiked hair the color of snow, his tight-veined arms, his glacier-blue eyes ⦠He didnât look a day more than sixteen. And yet somewhere within this beautiful stranger was a soul older than sixteenâmuch, much older than sixteen. For the last three weeks, then, Sophie had refused his ring. How could she bond herself to a boy with the School Master inside of him?
And yet the more Sophie looked at him, the more she couldnât see the School Master. All Sophie could see was a fresh, ethereal youth asking for her hand, with sharp cheekbones and full lipsâmore handsome than a prince, more powerful than a prince, and unlike Prince You-Know-Who, this boy was hers.
Sophie reddened, remembering she was all alone in this world. Everyone else had abandoned her. Every desperate effort to be Good had been punished with betrayal. She had no family, no friends, no future. And now, this ravishing boy in front of her was her last hope for love. Panic burned through her muscles and dried out her throat. There was no choice anymore. Sophie swallowed and slowly stepped towards him.
Look at him. Heâs no older than you, she soothed herself. The boy of your dreams. She reached shaking fingers for his bare shoulder ⦠until she suddenly froze in her tracks. It was only magic that had brought this boy to life, she thought, pulling her hand back into her sleeve. But how long does magic last?
